Chris Bartley (rower)

Chris Bartley (born 2 February 1984 in Wrexham ) is a British lightweight rowers. He won a gold medal until 2011 and two bronze medals at the World Championships.

Career

Bartley began in 1998 with the rowing. In 2005 he won his first international medal when he reached at the U23 European Championships with the lightweight quadruple sculls second place. In 2006, he won the lightweight two - coxless with Richard Chambers in the U23 World Championships, at the World Rowing Championships in 2006 occupied the two sixth place. At the 2007 World Championships in Munich, he won with Simon Jones, Rob Williams and Dave Currie, the bronze medal in the lightweight quadruple sculls. After Bartley could not qualify for the 2008 Olympics, he was in 2009 in the British lightweight coxless four. The boat reached in all three World Cup regattas, the A-final, at the 2009 World Championships in Poznan occupied the back four as the winner of the C- final the 13th Place. 2010 was only Bartley from the 2009 four left in the cast Richard Chambers, Paul Mattick, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley won the boat in the World Cup second place in Bled and two wins in Munich and Lucerne and also won at the World Championships in New Zealand. A year later received the boat in the same occupation, the bronze medal at the World Championships in Bled. In the occupation of Peter Chambers, Rob Williams, Richard Chambers and Chris Bartley, the British foursome won the World Cup Final 2012 in Munich. In the finals of the Olympic Regatta in 2012, the British foursome was subject to South African boat and won by seven hundredths of a second ahead of the Danes silver. The World Rowing Championships 2013 in Chungju, he won again in the lightweight quadruple the bronze medal.